M Gessen explores the wild truth about their cousin, who keeps kidnapping his own child. Plus: will the world of porn really be Screwed By AI? “Anyone’s first cousin could be plotting murder …” New ...

The five-part podcast is based on a family member of New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer The New York Times and Serial Productions are launching a new true ...

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Six months ago, while coping with the singular affliction that is pregnancy exhaustion, I fell down a stationery rabbit hole. Given my mental state — my brain felt like a piece of styrofoam, useless ...

Our obsession with serial killers and true crime probably has concerning implications for our collective psyche. Why are we so drawn to darkness? The same could be asked of many of the protagonists of ...

Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...

For lack of a better term, the 1970s and '80s are often called America’s “Golden Age” of serial killers throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Its nickname, after all, is “America’s Killing Fields.”) In ...

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Serial killers do not act randomly; they respond to deeply embedded neural scripts formed through early imprinting and reinforced by symbolic releasers. Ethologists like Konrad Lorenz and Niko ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Adnan Syed, whose case amassed a worldwide following of "Serial" podcast listeners, will remain free — even though his murder conviction still stands, a Baltimore judge ruled on ...

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